Summer in Review

As I'm in the middle of the painful weeks of midterms, I've been thinking about how this summer was pretty great. I spent the summer in New York for the first time, so this was the first time I lived here without the schedules and pressures of college. I interned at a public relations firm, which included working at this year's Drama Desk Awards, 54 Below, and Broadway in Bryant Park. In my free time, I went to museums, bookstores, parks, baseball games, and lots and lots of shows. I baked lots of desserts and read a bunch of books and watched a probably embarrassing amount of TV... and took many, many photos on my phone while running around the city. So this is a phone diary of my summer: parks and theatre and museums, streets and desserts and the views from my dorm, plus a few glimpses of home and DC. More photos on my instagram!

Rome

The last main leg of our trip was Rome! The big, busy, and crowded city was a shift from Florence and Venice, but we still loved it. Plus, the weather was amazing - so sunny and very warm. We also walked so many miles each day, so I suppose it made all that pasta, pizza, and gelato okay. Our long weekend in Rome was spent exploring the ancient Roman sites, Vatican City, and beautiful old churches, as well as walking around the squares and twisting streets.